Alternatively, you can use the option of connecting via WiFi. In my tests, this setup did not always work with Bluetooth.

After restarting the program, you can try to connect to Impress with your smartphone. You can then check the box for Enable remote control. Navigate to Tools | Options | LibreOffice Impress | General in the menu. Next, enable remote control in LibreOffice Impress. Then, enable Bluetooth on both devices and pair them via the system settings of the respective devices. To use your Android smartphone as a remote control, you first need to download and install the LibreOffice Impress Remote app from the Google Play Store. The presentation tool Impress has two major new features in LibreOffice: a photo album for pasting multiple images and an Android remote control for controlling a presentation with your smartphone. Additionally, both tools have problems with linked table cells some cells just disappeared. Various layout elements, such as rectangles drawn on the page borders, simply disappeared in OpenOffice, whereas LibreOffice Writer put them in a meaningful but still deviated position. Graphics rotated in Word reverted to their normal positions. Figure 4: LibreOffice shows missing fonts in italics in the toolbar.īoth suites have difficulty getting the layout of technically complex documents right.

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